George denis and george grassal



DENIS & GRASS-AL.

Hay Rack.

Patented Nov. 23, 1869.

It PQERS, FHO'IQ-UJNDGRAPMER. WASHINGTON. D C.

- am swa Letters Patent No. 97,172, dated November 2 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT m HAY-Racks.

I Efhe Schedule referred 1:6 in these Letters Patent and part of the same.

To all whom it mayhmwern Be it known that we, GEORGE Dams and GEoRen GRASSAL, of Osceola, in the county of Clarke, and State of Iowa, have invent-ed a new and improved HayeRack; and we do hereby declare that the following, is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichf Figure 1 is a front view of front end-rack or upright ranie. v

Figure 2 is a back view ofnotched standard.

Like letters in the two figures indicate like parts.

, Our invention consists of a pivoted upright frame or end-rack, attached to the frontend of a folding. hayrack, and a pivoted notched standard, attached to the back end of afolding hay-rack, for the purpose of holding the ends of the boom-pole, withjwhich the hay or other substance is held, upon the hay-rack, and

so arranged that they may be conveniently folded with the rack, when the same is beiughandled or is set aside.

A represents the pivoted upright frame or end-rack, attached, by the pivot or bolt a, to front end of the folding hay-rack B, and is constructed with a base, G, and upright sides b b, and cross-bars c c c, properly framed together, the. upper bars-being shorter than the lower ones, so as to incline the upper ends of' the 'sides' toward each other, as seen in fig. 1.

The base 0 is made long enough to extend and fit into notches in the rails of the folding hay-rack, as shown by the dot-ted lines at d (l.

D is a pivoted standard, provided with hooked teeth or shoulders, forming notches large enough, to receive and hold the ends of the boom-pole, and is attached to the back end of the folding hay rack,by means of the bolt e, as seen in fig. 2. v The bolts a and e are made long enough to serve as bolts and pivots for the hay-rack, as well as for the upright franie'and standard.

. The hay-rack B is constructed in the usual way of constructingfolding hay-racks. Y

When in use, the end-rack A and standard D are in position, as seen in the figs. land 2, and when not in use, they are readily folded with the rack, for the purpose of being removed and set aside, as shown by dotted lines in fig. 1.. And when loading, or using the rack, so that standard I) is not required, orwould he iiLthe way in an upright position, it is readily turned down in position, as shown by dotted lines in fig. 2.

When the hay-rack is loaded, the front end of the boom-pole, provided with a notch or pin, is placed under one of the bars 0, and the pole pressed down tightly over the. load, and the back end is placed and secured in one of the notches in standard D.

\Ve do not claim a patent on the folding rack B, being aware of the patent to H. R. Hawkins, dated July 10, 1860; but

.VVh-at we do claim, and desire Patent, is

The pivoted upright frame or end-rack A'and the pivoted notched standard D, in combination with the folding hay-rack B, substantially as described.

' GEORGE DENIS.

GEORGE GRASSAL.

to secure by Letters Witnesses:

J. J. GRABLE, P. J. Goss. 

